> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:59 PM
> To: webpost_at_tigris.org
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: SVN as CMS
>
> webpost_at_tigris.org wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just curious to know if it is better idea to use SVN to store
> generate artifacts on building code. Up to now, i know that we should
> only use SVN for code and not for any library and artifacts.
> >
> > Could any one please comment/suggest on this.
>
> People with lots of Microsoft experience seem to think they can't
> reproducibly build libraries, etc. in the future. I assume they have
> their reasons - although one group I worked with some time ago put
> their
> compilers and build tools under version control to make the builds
more
> predictable.
>
Technically that's not enough. You need to CM (configuration
management) the build environment. Servers, OS, shared libraries, shell
variables, user permissions, etc.. Unix/Java is pretty simple to CM,
but Windows is "impossible" IMO, short of using virtual machines.
Windows CM challenges: registry, dlls scattered all across the system,
dll hell, mandatory OS patches pushed by the SysAdmins, self-updating
apps/compilers, the general opaqueness of Windows, etc.. Heck, I've
installed the C# and VB .net Express compilers, which I have no way to
version control since there it was installed over the net instead of
from a downloaded binary.
Fortunately, if you're working with software that's constantly being
updated for internal customers, you can ignore most of these problems
since deployed binaries quickly become obsolete/end-of-life.
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